Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The fringed milk-wort, Polygala paucifolia: so called from the pair of large, usually pink-purple petals of the aërial flowers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A common trailing perennial milkwort (
Polygala paucifolia ) of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals
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The elegant silvery May-star is seen here and there; by its side the tall, slender mitella, while warm, rose-colored gay-wings are lying among the mosses, and each of these flowers has an interest for those who choose to make their acquaintance.
Rural Hours 1887
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As for the May-wings, 1 or "gay-wings," they are in truth one of the gayest little blossoms we have; growing low as they do and many of their winged flowers together, you might fancy them so many warm lilac, or deep rose-colored butterflies resting on the mosses.
Rural Hours 1887
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